Straight from the beginning. Right after Day Z got massive popularity, this was announced, and the devs claimed it had been in development before Day Z, although there is no proof to back that claim up. Suspicious. Next, people can "buy in" to a barely functioning alpha build, which causes major problems with PC. Weird. Next, the game can be bought for $15, yet includes micro transactions... these same micro transactions are lost once you die, which is pretty fast. And we all know the rest.

The fact that they are being forced to rename their game pretty much proves they didn't start working on this game until after DayZ. If they had, they would have trademarked the name long ago.

Honestly, they'd be better off not lying about when their game came into production because if people actually believed that it started years ago, then how the hell does this developer take THAT long to come out with the broken product they have today?

@Bloodraid It somewhat has to do with DayZ. They tried calling it "WarZ" to make it similar to "DayZ", which was getting a lot of attention, and cash in on its success before the standalone comes out.

However, they filed for the trademark not that long ago seeing as its now suspended because of the movie coming out next year in June called "World War Z". If you search that in the trademark site, it has ones filed in May of 2011 and June of 2012. So yah, under 2 years of development on the game at most, though they did only file the app for their (WarZ devs) trademark in June of 2012.

They deserve everything bad that happens to them. Nice to see some justice for a change! Hopefully their time in this industry is short-lived, the developers are total scumbag scammers, liars and thieves.

Sorry for the caps but this is really serious! It's all over the usual PC Gamer community forums to not spend your cash on warz. They are just using the DayZ fame to make a serious money grab and are taking advantage of Gamers in the most evil of ways.

It's funny, when I first heard of this game I thought it sounded really familiar, World War Z is what I was thinking of. Obviously they were trying to be similar to DayZ and ended up screwing themselves

No, it's Diablo 3. The game was unplayable for two days and millions were waiting at a chance to play that fake Diablo game. Then the Koreans wanted a refund because they were smart. I lost $130 for a fake Diablo game.

Yeah, sure, not being able to play a game for two days is way worse than lies on the description of a game, false screenshots, selling it unfinished, unfair bans, copying even the name of another game, and now getting the risk of having to change the name of the game. Yeah, it's almost the same thing.

As a player of War Z from the beginning, I really enjoyed the game despite its flaws, I honestly hope things get sorted out because i actually found it more fun to play than day z which i played before this came out.

No one is telling him what he should like, though we're perfectly entitled to have an opinion on his likes and tastes. You can have an opinion on just about anything, it doesn't mean we're forcing others to share said opinion, so cool your jets hot rod.